what a hoot Randy!
this is a cool thing you have done!
Sorry I didn't post sooner.
me
what a hoot Randy!
this is a cool thing you have done!
Sorry I didn't post sooner.
me
hehe---Thank ye, Dan - Glad you caught this wacky thing I put together. Don't you think this would just be beautiful in a Garritan Christmas track?Originally Posted by DPDAN
Randy
What a blast Randy! Nice work, it sounds like you had a great time putting the lib together. Ok, so I'll take the challange and put together a piece using the lib. I just need a week or so since work is being a bit....well, work.I've got a few ideas, the question will be can I make them come alive.
-Kevin
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Thanks, Kevin! - This is great, that you want to try using it in a piece--Looking forward!
Randy
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic - Great stuff
Thanks very much
Fred
Nice, thank You, Fred, for letting me know you're getting a kick out of this thing.
I'm not quite sure what possessed me to make KS. It just popped in my head one day when I was looking at SFZ info, and I'd just gotten through cleaning up the kitchen, banging pots around - Do a "found sound" percussion thing for the GPO gang, this little voice said. Why the heck not, I replied to myself. A few days later, voila, finis. It was fun.
TIP - A good starting point for putting together something like this is to copy and paste the SFZ code from a fairly simple SFZ instrument, like this KS collection. You can just use Notepad to edit it. If you have file extensions invisible in your folders, you can change that on your computer to be like the older versions of Windows where you could always see the types of files you have in your folders. You can't edit file extension names otherwise. Once you "Save As," you'll need to be able to save your file as .sfz, not a .txt file which is Notepad's default file type.
Like I said on my long "SFZ - A Start" thread, the biggest job is recording the samples themselves. You need some kind of specialized audio editing program like Sound Forge for creating looping samples. But so many things can be one-shot samples, like most of the plinks, bonks and thwacks in this thing I put together. Start with one-shots.
If you record your samples in a program like Sonar or Cubase, be aware that editing you do in the main window of a program like that isn't actually destructive editing. So when you've recorded a sample and there's the inevitable gap at the start of the recording, once you've trimmed the recording so that it's the length you need, dead air cut out etc--you then need to Bounce the track down so you have a copy of that edited recording--That new recording would be the kind of sample you'd need in your SFZ instrument's folder.
Randy
Fantastic stuff Randy. I'm on holidays and don't keep up with the forum, but I did download your kalimba and your kitchen sink, and yes, it's a hoot indeed, but a pretty well sampled hoot, I'd like to add!
I don't know how you'd feel about it, but I can suggest you make your samples also available on freesound.org.
Greetings from Spain...
Theo
Hi, Flwrd - Thanks for the post. A hoot!--I should've done a sample of an Owl! Or me pretending to be one!
That's a fine idea, to post these SFZ instruments elsewhere. Freesound - I don't know if I've ever been there. I'll go take a look around, maybe it'll look familiar to me. But I know for sure I've never posted there. That'd be fun - Thanks for the good idea.
EDIT: AH yes, of course - I Love that site. I'd forgotten the URL - But I go there all the time for sound effects. - I didn't know people posted sampled instruments also?--I'll go take a look.
Randy
Hello again, Flwrd
I really admire what's being done at Freesound.org. I highly recommend that everybody in need of original sound effects and some instruments to go there. It's incredible what they're doing--Members upload sounds they've recorded and/or produced, and freely share them. It's a sound designer Co Op.
Sometimes you'll find a sound which is part of a package a user has put together, like multi samples of an instrument. I found some very interesting things tonight.
But the drawback is that if I posted the Kalimba or Kitchen Sink there, it would be only the raw samples I could post. The SFZ files which lay those samples across a keyboard, and especially in the case of KS, have so much other programming info - the loops, volumes, start times - none of that can be shared at Freesound, as far as I can see. The samples are one thing, but it's the SFZ files that make them come alive.--So I don't see how I could share these things there in a way I'd be happy with. I wouldn't want the users to only have access to the raw samples.
Am I wrong--? Is there a way to share the whole SFZ folder at Freesound?
Randy
I was reminded of freesound because of the sound packs and the high quality and good work there. But I haven't been able to find out if you could upload your sfz files there too.
I know there are sites that publish sfz packs, but usually the quality varies so much. I'll take a look again when I get home.
Theo
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